i installed norton 2005 in windows XP sp2

during the installation the norton told me to shut down the firewall in windows.

does anyobdy know which firewall works better?

I know which firewall works better - and that would be sygates. Its free and works very well. You can download it HERE

Is this a sport? I think not .... Maybe you could have posted this in the Software forum.

Microsoft's firewall does not stop all instrusions, and therefore you still need another firewall on top of it. If you have got another firewall on top, it shuld be able to deal with the intrusions which microsoft's firewall prevents, so there is really no need for the MS firewall.

The best firewalls are Norton and Zone Alarm.

If you get any liceneced firewalls, shut down Microsofts one (it aint that great anyway).

Keep the Norton one running. Norton is a good firewall but McAfee is better. However McAfee's anti-virus is crap, use a Norton one. :mrgreen:

Nortons firewall is way better than Microsoft's. Microsoft's is designed to be a basic firewall that will work on all Windows XP systems seamlessly (however it doesnt). Norton Firewall is much more powerful and scalable than Microsofts.

Zone Alarm is ANNOYING OMG! but Sygate is The best because i had a adware.virus
the file name was vgy.exe and so i stop it from being allowed to try to run by using Ctrl + Alt + Delete and ending its process then i removed it

Hi there!.

I have tried several AV/Firewall combinations on my XP SP2 system, and after a lot of trial and error (and a few full system restores :cry: ) I found that 2Wire´s firewall at stealth mode plus Norton´s AV and Firewall with MS´s turned off offers a pretty secure connection.

(McAffee´s solution seemed too resource hungry)

Hope this helps.

See ya!!

• Zone Alarm is really really sh*t! Don't use it! It blocks everything plus decrease your Internet Speed alot! After i uninstalled it, my speed got back to normal. 800KBps --> 1MBps!

I like the WinXp SP2 Firewall... I use it only